The Air Force has launched yet another new squadron dedicated to electronic warfare as part of its effort to expand expertise in the field. The 23rd Electronic Warfare Squadron stood up at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., home to the service’s sole wing focused on ...
Electronic Warfare
Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, nominee to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Defense Department needs to upgrade its electronic warfare capability and its EW training ranges; just as his predecessor said at his own confirmation ...
Defense industry executives who specialize in electromagnetic warfare, or EW, said March 4 that the widespread adoption of a set of universal standards has positioned the United States to advance quickly in the discipline.
The new F-15E and F-15EX electronic warfare suite, meant to protect the fourth-generation fighters in contested battlespace—was shown to be “operationally effective” and “suitable,” the Pentagon's Director of Operational Test and Evaluation said.
F-15E Strike Eagles with new electronic warfare suites landed at RAF Lakenheath last week, the first in the fleet to receive the upgrades.
The Air Force has cleared a new F-15 electronic warfare system for full-rate production and awarded a $615.8 million contract for contractor Boeing to upgrade the fighter with the systems. The EPAWSS kit is manufactured by BAE Systems, which claims it provides the fighter with “integrated ...
Space-based capabilities like GPS and satellite communications are vital to modern warfighting—and they are also most easily attackable via the electromagnetic spectrum via jamming or spoofing the radio transmissions that provide their command and control. But the Department of Defense’s electromagnetic warfare efforts in space ...
Col. Larry Fenner, the commander of the Air Force’s only Spectrum Warfare Wing, came to the Association of Old Crows electronic warfare trade show looking for tools he can use to automate key parts of his mission workload.
The Air Force is scaling up the Joint Simulation Environment to enable large-scale mission training possible for F-35 and other combat pilots at bases all over the country and even overseas.